The City (Financial District) in London STREETS, SQUARES AND NEIGHBOURHOODS Description The City of London is a historic heart of London, a small place within Greater London, England. At present, this hub of the Financial District is a major business as well as a financial center. To date, the city continues to serve as the primary business center in the world. The other major financial district, other than the City of London is Canary Wharf, which is 2.5 miles to the East. Within the city, one can visit the markets, namely, the Leadenhall Market and the Smithfield Market. There are other places of interest like the Epping Forest other than the Hampstead Heath, both of which are worth visiting places in the city. Moreover, this beautiful and clean neighborhood is full of investment bankers and many city millionaires. Some of the topmost companies are based here like Barclays and Coutts. The city is home to historic sites like St. Pauls Cathedral, the Windsor Castle and other attractions that a tourist can enjoy with his family.

0 { "ResponseInfo": { "ResponseCode": 200, "ResponseMessage": "OK", "ResponseException": null, "ResponseLogGuid": null }, "Data": { "PhotoGallery": [], "DetailOverview": { "Address": null, "Coordinate": { "Latitudine": null, "Longitudine": null }, "Description": " The City of London is a historic heart of London, a small place within Greater London, England. At present, this hub of the Financial District is a major business as well as a financial center. To date, the city continues to serve as the primary business center in the world. The other major financial district, other than the City of London is Canary Wharf, which is 2.5 miles to the East. Within the city, one can visit the markets, namely, the Leadenhall Market and the Smithfield Market. There are other places of interest like the Epping Forest other than the Hampstead Heath, both of which are worth visiting places in the city. Moreover, this beautiful and clean neighborhood is full of investment bankers and many city millionaires. Some of the topmost companies are based here like Barclays and Coutts.

The city is home to historic sites like St. Pauls Cathedral, the Windsor Castle and other attractions that a tourist can enjoy with his family.

", "Phone": null, "Metro": "", "Email": null, "WebSite": null, "Opening": "", "PriceDescr": "", "Category": { "Description": "Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods", "Url": "", "AdditionalInfo": null } }, "Ticket": null, "TotVotes": 0, "Name": "The City (Financial District)", "PhotoMain": null, "OrderingRank": 314, "Rating": 0.0, "ReviewsNumber": null, "ReviewText": null, "UrlDetail": null, "Category": null, "Author": null, "Distance": null, "TotAttractions": 338, "Coordinates": null, "UrlList": null, "Address": null, "Phone": null }, "FiltersOutput": null, "ServiceName": "Pol.Presentation.Web.Services.AttractionService+AttractionDetailTopServices" } AttractionDetailTopContainer - GetPartialView = 0,0156259 a 960 m 0,0625055 { "ResponseInfo": { "ResponseCode": 200, "ResponseMessage": "OK

", "ResponseException": null, "ResponseLogGuid": null }, "Data": [ { "Name": "10 Downing Street", "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": 366, "Height": 550, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "OrderingRank": null, "Rating": 3.0, "ReviewsNumber": 5, "ReviewText": null, "UrlDetail": "", "Category": { "Description": "Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods", "Url": "", "AdditionalInfo": null }, "Author": null, "Distance": 0.3691313277321443, "TotAttractions": 0, "Coordinates": null, "UrlList": null, "Address": null, "Phone": null }, { "Name": "City of Westminster", "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": 550, "Height": 368, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "OrderingRank": null, "Rating": 3.75, "

ReviewsNumber": 8, "ReviewText": null, "UrlDetail": "", "Category": { "Description": "Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods", "Url": "", "AdditionalInfo": null }, "Author": null, "Distance": 0.827710445517083, "TotAttractions": 0, "Coordinates": null, "UrlList": null, "Address": null, "Phone": null }, { "Name": "Trafalgar Square", "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": 408, "Height": 550, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "OrderingRank": null, "Rating": 5.0, "ReviewsNumber": 49, "ReviewText": null, "UrlDetail": "", "Category": { "Description": "Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods", "Url": "", "AdditionalInfo": null }, "Author": null, "Distance": 0.87624188043668416, "TotAttractions": 0,

 "Coordinates": null, "UrlList": null, "Address": null, "Phone": null }, { "Name": "The south bank", "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": 425, "Height": 290, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "OrderingRank": null, "Rating": 4.375, "ReviewsNumber": 8, "ReviewText": null, "UrlDetail": "", "Category": { "Description": "Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods", "Url": "", "AdditionalInfo": null }, "Author": null, "Distance": 0.96128935338525856, "TotAttractions": 0, "Coordinates": null, "UrlList": null, "Address": null, "Phone": null } ], "Options": { "PageSize": null, "PageIndex": 1, "TotalItemCount": 4, "TotalResult": 4, "FiltersOutput": null, "Ordering": { "Key": null, "Value": null } }, "ServiceName": "Pol.Presentation.Web.Services

.AttractionService+AttractionListNear_2xNServices", "Name": "The City (Financial District)", "Categ": "Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods" } AttractionListNear_2xN - GetPartialView = 0,0625055 a 480 m 0,0312526 { "ResponseInfo": { "ResponseCode": 200, "ResponseMessage": "OK", "ResponseException": null, "ResponseLogGuid": null }, "Data": [ { "Name": "London Bridge Apartments", "IdStructure": 0, "DestinationName": null, "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": null, "Height": null, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "UrlDetail": "", "Stars": 4.0, "ReviewsNumber": 33, "PriceFrom": 86.19, "PriceCurrency": "€", "Posizione": 0, "OrderingRank": 1, "Distance": 0.22213967714602831, "

Rating": null, "UrlList": "", "Category": null }, { "Name": "Restaurant The Cinnamon Club", "IdStructure": 0, "DestinationName": null, "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": null, "Width": null, "Height": null, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "UrlDetail": "", "Stars": 0.0, "ReviewsNumber": 0, "PriceFrom": null, "PriceCurrency": "€", "Posizione": 0, "OrderingRank": 2, "Distance": 0.34379828769441934, "Rating": null, "UrlList": "", "Category": null }, { "Name": "The Sanctuary House Hotel", "IdStructure": 0, "DestinationName": null, "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": null, "Height": null, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "UrlDetail": "", "Stars": 3.0, "ReviewsNumber": 213, "PriceFrom": 131.0, "PriceCurrency":

 "€", "Posizione": 0, "OrderingRank": 3, "Distance": 0.35523424345378529, "Rating": null, "UrlList": "", "Category": null }, { "Name": "Hotel InterContinental London Westminster", "IdStructure": 0, "DestinationName": null, "PhotoMain": { "Name": null, "Url": "", "Width": null, "Height": null, "Caption": null, "AdditionalInfo": null }, "UrlDetail": "", "Stars": 4.0, "ReviewsNumber": 0, "PriceFrom": 0.0, "PriceCurrency": "€", "Posizione": 0, "OrderingRank": 4, "Distance": 0.47806901677327218, "Rating": null, "UrlList": "", "Category": null } ], "Options": { "PageSize": 4, "PageIndex": 1, "TotalItemCount": 0, "TotalResult": 4, "FiltersOutput": null, "Ordering": { "Key": null, "Value

": null } }, "ServiceName": "Pol.Presentation.Web.Services.HotelServices+HotelListNear_2xN", "NearName": "The City (Financial District)", "Categ": "" } HotelListNear_2xN - GetPartialView = 0,0312526 What is the financial district of London called?

| Reference.com What is the financial district of London called? A: Quick Answer The London financial district is called the City of London or just the City. It also is referred to as "the Square Mile" because it occupies a little more than 1 square mile. Full Answer As of 2014, 400,000 people work in the City and more than 250 foreign banks have offices there. The City is the site where London was originally established, although the London metropolitan area has grown far beyond those borders. The City is located in the heart of the Greater London area, which includes 32 boroughs. London also has a secondary financial center called Canary Wharf, which is east of the City. The City of London, London’s Financial District. A feng shui analysis. | Michael Oon The City of London, London’s Financial District. A feng shui analysis. Michael Oon Leave a comment The City of London, the old and the new. The Tower of London, the Gherkin and other towers in the City. The City of London (The City) is London’s financial district.

It has a history that dates back some 20 centuries and it is now one of three premier financial centres in the world. The City has always been involved in trading. From the Roman times, a trading hub of the British Empire and now an important world financial centre. Which came first? Is it an auspicious location where people come and succeed? Or people come first and they make it successful? It has been recorded that Julius Caesar in 55 BC had been reconnoitring the land which later became a trading and defence post of the Roman Empire. It was known as Londinium, the Roman name for London. The Romans chose the 3 hills, now known as Ludgate Hill, Cornhill and Tower Hill for their settlement as it was above the level of the floods when it occurred. London declined with the Roman Empire but in the 9th Century, it became a trading post with links to Europe. Its wealth and prosperity began to attract invaders with power passing from Viking to the English then to the Normans in AD 1066. London has grown from these humble roots to become a cosmopolitan metropolis and literally, centre of the trading world in the 18 to 20th Centuries.

Map – Wikipedia 13th century The City is the area North of London Bridge and its present boundaries are indeed the roughly similar to the 13th Century map occupying about a square mile in area. Currently, the City is a financial district and it has its own local government and its own Mayor of the City of London. This is distinctly different from the Mayor of London. The City vies with New York city as the financial capital of the world with many banking and insurance institutions having their headquarters here. The London Stock Exchange (shares and bonds), Lloyd’s of London (Insurance) and the Bank of England are based in the City together with over 500 banks. London is the world’s greatest foreign exchange market which had about 40% of the daily global trunover of about $4.0 trillion in 2009. Looking at the map of the City, you can see that it is a random collection of roads and buildings. There was a great opportunity to re-develop the City after the Great Fire in 1666 but, the traders in the City prevailed and they just built their buildings on the land they owned. The current roads of the City are exactly how it was centuries ago.

Hence, the roads are going at all the different angles and the buildings have all the different shapes. There are certain unique features of the City. 1. The dominating building is St Pauls Cathedral. It dominates the West side of the City. 2. There are 40 churches; many were designed by Sir Christopher Wren who also designed St Paul’s. 3. Much of the present day buildings are built over the old Roman city ruins. Structure of the City Like all established cities of the world, it is located by the water. A necessity for communications and survival (food and waste). London has the River Thames whose source is in the Cotswolds which is to the North West of London. It then flows into the London area from the West past The City. The energy brings to the City the following characteristics North West – father – order, management, money, West – 3rd daughter – fun/drinking, talking/argument, As the river turns the corner, it is sending energy to various parts of The City. The City of London together with the energy flows and City Specialisams “Job Description” of the various sections of the City of London (and slightly beyond) A: This is the area where the Courts of Law are.

These include the most important Courts in the UK – Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court), High Court of Justice and the Supreme Court.. From the type of energy coming from the river, these courts are not only have a high reputation of importance in the UK but also, to the rest of the world. These courts are used by parties from many different countries to settle disputes. Certainly this would be an area where there are plenty of lawyers would be setting up their offices. The lawyers who work here can certainly be very wealthy indeed. B. Fleet Street: This was the area where the UK national papers were published and distributed nationwide. However, in the 1980s, with the introduction of modern technology, the publishers relocated away from central London where they could get more space. For example, News International moved to Wapping, Telegraph moved to Canary Wharf etc. The offices in Fleet Street are now occupied mainly by law firms as the Courts of Law are nearby. C. St Pauls Cathedral: This is the landmark building of London. The view of the Cathedral is protected. Hence, the buildings in the west side of the City have restrictions in its shape and height.

The towers or skyscrapers are further along in the East side of the City have less restrictions. D. Paternoster Square, just north of St Pauls Cathedral . This is another area where publishers once congregated. However, with the re-development, it is now occupied by businesses in the financial services like banks E. Bank of England building and Royal Exchange. This is the area where the banks are located. At one time, there was a requirement that the banks should be within a radius of 10 min walking from the Bank of England but this rule was relaxed in the 1980s. This area has a junction of 6 roads and a large open space (forecourt) in front of Royal Exchange building. This place receives energy from 6 different directions. It is filled with energy thereby making it an extremely auspicious location. F. Lloyds of London. This building houses the London Insurance Market and it is located in the East side of the City. Around this building are the other insurance companies including Swiss Re which developed the Gherkin, also known as the 24 St Mary Axe. The East side of the City does not have the “demand” as the west side.

Also, there are less building restrictions at this end (like the hindering the line of sight of St Pauls Cathedral). This is where the tower or skyscrapers are being built – Heron Tower and a cluster of towers which are under construction like Pinnacle, 100 Bishopsgate, 20 Fenchurch Street, Heron Plaza, The Heron. Architectural Style: It is all about getting the floor area into the square mile. There is always demand for space. Property developers are thinking of ways of getting addition floor area into the footprint of the land. Towers or skyscrapers are being built in the East side of the City. An example of this is 20 Fenchurch Street (Walkie Takie) with its bulbous top as the best rents can be had with floors with a striking view. As a result, the city is a mix of the old with the new. In my opinion, anything goes as long there is funding for the project. Feng Shui Analysis: London has established excellent connections to all parts of the world over the centuries. It is located in a time zone which allows communication to both Asia and the Americas.

The City receives energy from the land but mostly from the river. The City is located after the bend in the river. The energy from the river, instead of flowing with the water around the bend, goes straight ahead towards the City (as in the red arrows). The road layout in the City is haphazard. Therefore, this energy is not distributed evenly as in districts like Canary Wharf . Therefore, some buildings will receive more energy and some will receive less. Also, there are buildings which have plenty of energy around them, but the doors are in the wrong place to receive the energy for the building. It is random. However, there are still a good number of buildings which receive plenty of this energy as shown by the trading record of the district. This goes back to the Question at the beginning of this post? Which came first? Is it an auspicious location where people came and succeed? Or people came first and they made it successful? London has been a trading post since the turn of the millennium some 20 centuries. It is now, one of the top trading centres of the world. This time span is greater than any human being.

From the historical record of London, it looks like, more people came to London to work and succeeded than anywhere else over this period of time. It appears that it is the environment or the location of London that helps more people to succeed than other towns or cities. Feng Shui is a Chinese system of Land Management. It is about how the environment interact with the welfare of man. (c) Copyright – Dr Michael Oon. All Rights Reserved Worldwide 2012. History and pictures of the City of London, also known as The Square Mile, where London began. The City of London by Katie Calvert Banking, commerce, insurance—the City has long been the home to many financial institutions that help to drive the economy of London and, indeed, the world. The City, or the Square Mile, that is London's financial district has a rich (pun intended) history that dates back almost 2,000 years. London, England’s largest city, occupies more than 600 square miles. By contrast, the City of London occupies approximately one square mile. Uh, excuse me? Blame the Romans and medieval jurisdictions for a name that has confused more than a few tourists over the years.

The Romans built their port city of Londinium starting in the year 43 A.D. By the year 200, they had built aprotective wall around the settlement. The area that was once surrounded by the Roman walls was “the City” and formed the core from which this urban center would expand. Centuries went by and neighboring settlements expanded, too. The City bumped into its neighbor, the City of Westminster (yes, another city within a city). By the medieval period, the boundaries of the City (and other London boroughs of the time) were set. When people refer to “the City,” what they are usually talking about is London's financial district. Institutions, such as the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange , have been housed here for hundreds of years. These institutions helped to create and finance the British Empire. Today, The City is still one of busiest commercial and financial districts in the world. The area dates back almost 2,000 years, and some remnants of its Roman roots are still visible.

The remains of a 3rd Century temple dedicated to Mithras—near the intersection of Queen Victoria Street and Queen Street—as well as parts of the original Roman wall can be seen (look near the Tower of London and the Museum of London). Yet many buildings in the City are modern and belie the district’s age. The area was destroyed by fire twice, in 1212 and then again in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The City was also heavily bombed during the Blitz. Walk anywhere in the City and you are likely to see a church that Christopher Wren had a hand in designing or building. Wren's grand plan for the rebuilding of London after the 1666 fire was never realized (private property rules and the speed with which reconstruction began doomed his elegant classical design), but England’s greatest architect was involved in the rebuilding of 52 churchs in the City. Those still standing (often owing to post-WWII renovation) include St. Nicholas Cole, St. James Garlickhythe, St. Stephen Walbrook, St. Mary Abchurch, St. Mary-le-Bow , and Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul’s Cathedral . St.

Mary-le-Bow , which was almost totally destroyed by bombing in 1941, has an important place in London's story. According to tradition, in 1392 its church bells ( Bow bells ) called Dick Whittington back to London where he would later be elected Lord Mayor four times. Only a person born within the sound of Bow bells can claim to be a true Cockney. Not surprisingly, some of the older buildings that house the City's monetary institutions display a certain historical grandeur. The Royal Exchange dates back to 1565, when Sir Thomas Gresham , a merchant and financier, founded it to be a center of commerce.Three buildings have stood on the site, the current one having been designed by Sir William Tite and opened by Queen Victoria in 1844. The Royal Exchange is now a high-end shopping emporium. The grasshopper that is part of the building's weathervane comes from the Gresham Family crest. A golden grasshopper traditional hanging sign can be seen on a stroll down Lombard Street—one of seven streets intersecting in front of the Royal Exchange. Lombard Street has long been a center of banking in the City.

England's rich wool trade enticed Italian bankers to come to London starting in the 12th Century. The street name honors the Lombardy region of Italy, the homeland of many of these early bankers. Barclays Bank was at number 54 Lombard Street until their move to Canary Wharf in 2005. The Bank of England stands nearby the Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street. The Bank of England Museum (housed inside with an entrance on Bartholomew Lane) displays the history and workings of this bank, which was chartered in 1694 to manage the government’s accounts and to raise money for government spending. Admission to the museum is free. Edward Lloydowner of the coffee shop where Lloyds of London beganwas buried at St Mary Woolnoth in 1713. St Mary Woolnoth , on Lombard Street at King William Street, was designed by a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren; Nicholas Hawksmoor. The Bank of England is still the central bank of Britain and also issues the country's paper currency. Mansion House is the official home of London's mayor.

This mansion , with its Palladian-style front, was designed by George Dance the Elder and completed in 1753. The interior includes Egyptian Hall, a formal room with nothing remotely Egyptian about its style, which was popular in the 18th Century. Note that Mansion House is open by appointment only for organized groups of 15 to 40 people. A building that survived both the Great Fire and the Blitz is Guildhall , the administrative seat of City government. Its name may come from the Anglo-Saxon word, gild, which means payment, so taxes were probably collected there. Its construction began in 1411; since documents dating back to 1128 mention Guildhall, it is likely that an earlier building was located on or near the site. Its Great Hall is still the scene of banquets for royal and state visitors. Guildhall is open to the public when not in use for events; there is no admission fee. Two of the City's younger buildings have designs that set them apart from other office towers.

The Lloyd’s of London building, designed by Richard Rogers (now Lord Rogers) and opened in 1986, is, some might say, a more elegant version of Roger's Pompidou Center in Paris. The Swiss Re Centre (its formal name is 30 St Mary Axe, while detractors have given it the nickname “The Gherkin”) is a 40-story office building that opened in 2004. Designed to be eco-friendly , the building was constructed using recycled materials and was engineered to reduce energy consumption. Slideshow —all photos on this page London Photos -- National Geographic Loading photos... Photograph by Catherine Karnow The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, at rear, watches over Paternoster Square within The City. The square takes its name from Paternoster Row, the center of the London publishing trade. In 1940 the area was devastated by the aerial bombardment of The Blitz during World War II. Paternoster Square is now home to the London Stock Exchange, which relocated here from Threadneedle Street in 2004. The square is a favorite lunchtime venue and a great place for people-watching.

Photograph by Catherine Karnow A frilly dress and faraway look herald a fashion shoot in a garden adjacent to St. Paul's Cathedral, the glorious edifice built by Sir Christopher Wren. London is filled with small nooks of green spaces and vest-pocket parks. Photograph by Catherine Karnow An artist takes part in a painting workshop at the Guildhall Art Gallery. The ornate Guildhall, which dates to 1411, is The City's historic administrative center and hosts lavish banquets and corporate events, in addition to boasting a well-respected art gallery. Photograph by Catherine Karnow Four servers pray during Sunday High Mass at London's St. Bartholomew the Great church. Founded in 1123 as an Augustinian priory, the church is intact. Inside, the dark timbered ceiling, massive stone arches, and clustered pillars support one of the two remaining Norman churches in London, redolent of incense and the mysteries of medieval faith.

Says author James Conaway, "I'm slightly nervous walking over the stone floor in the presence of the ghost of William Hogarth, the 18th-century artist who was baptized in the pre-Reformation font." Photograph by Catherine Karnow A view taking in the corner of the 1881 Leadenhall Market, at left, and futuristic Lloyds Bank, opened 1986, shows the contrast between old and new. The winged dragon on the corner of Leadenhall Market is symbol of The City. The Leadenhall Market is a labyrinthine open-air emporium designed in 1881 by Sir Horace Jones. It was built on what has been a market site since Roman times. "Today," says Conaway, "occupants of the old shops are mostly restaurants feeding workers spilling out of the looming towers roundabout, or purveyors of clothes, gifts, and spirits that are part of larger retail chains." Photograph by Catherine Karnow A patron at Coq D'Argent, a rooftop restaurant, enjoys a glass of wine and a sterling view of the heart of The City. Author Conaway believes the past and present coexist admirably within The City.

"The new architecture may be brilliant and imposing, but we also need those old buildings and open spaces, to ease the mind and make urban intensity tolerable. Without them, we can't begin to understand the present." Photograph by Catherine Karnow A common street scene in The City: Enjoying a pint and a chat after work outside the historic Ye Olde Watling pub, in Bow Lane. Legend says workers who built St. Paul's Cathedral used to come here. "This is where business has always been done," says Londoner Peter Wynne Rees, "in alleyways outside pubs, by people standing around with pots of beer, talking. One reason The City works is that there are so many places like this to go to." Photograph by Catherine Karnow London past and present: 30 St. Mary Axe, the futuristic office building known locally as the "Gherkin," looms behind 13th-century St. Helen's Bishopsgate Church, where people gather for an evening service featuring a rock band. The 40-story 30 St. Mary Axe building was designed by Foster & Partners, one of Britain's star architectural firms.

Its double-skinned exterior is designed for maximum insulation, and overall it is London's most environmentally sound skyscraper. Photograph by Catherine Karnow A stylish Londoner window-shops in St. Michael's Alley. The popular Jamaica Wine House, in the distance, is one of many pubs and coffeehouses in the area, a power center in The City, London's bustling financial district. The Celts first came here thousands of years ago. It was later settled by Romans and has for at least four centuries been the beating heart of England's financial empire. Today The City is part of Greater London. Photograph by Catherine Karnow Richard Martin, senior program manager and sword bearer of the Lord Mayor of The City of London, stands amid the Plate Collection in Mansion House, the Lord Mayor's official residence. Built between 1739 and 1752, Mansion House is used for official functions, such as the annual dinner at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer reviews the state of the British economy. Mansion House occupies the site where St. Mary Woolchurch Haw stood before it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

New skyscraper in London’s financial district is casting light beams so intense it’s melting parked cars | Financial Post New skyscraper in London’s financial district is casting light beams so intense it’s melting parked cars StumbleUpon The owners of the 37-story tower known as the Walkie Talkie in the City of London financial district are investigating a light beam cast by the building that’s so intense it melted parked cars. Land Securities Group Plc and Canary Wharf Group Plc are examining the phenomenon and, along with the City of London, have blocked three parking spaces around the building at 20 Fenchurch Street that may be affected, the companies said in a statement after the market closed Monday. The glare from the skyscraper, whose nickname derives from its tapering rectangular design that is also responsible for the beam, has melted parts of vehicles, City AM newspaper reported Monday. Related Homeless in Silicon Valley: Hardship in America’s innovation heartland “We are taking the issue of light reflecting from 20 Fenchurch Street seriously and are looking into the matter as a priority,” Land Securities and Canary Wharf Group said in the statement.

City AM reported that Martin Lindsay parked his Jaguar XJ below the building and an hour later there was a smell of burning plastic and some panels were warped beyond repair. He said: “They’re going to have to think of something. I’m gutted. How can they let this continue?” Here’s a photo of the Jaguar that the building allegedly melted. A London skyscraper is blamed for reflecting light which melted parts of a nearby car: pic.twitter.com/sPijHkIoEw — BBC London Newsroom (@BBCLondonNews) September 2, 2013 City AM’s reported that temperatures in the bright spot hit 70 celsius, which is 158 Fahrenheit. Enough to fry an egg , as City AM’s Jim Waterson demonstrates on the nearby Viet Cafe, below.

AMAZING SCENES: @jimwaterson fries an egg on the pavement, live on @SkyNews #WalkieScorchie pic.twitter.com/XknghWIpSU — Tara Mulholland (@tara_mulholland) September 3, 2013 The light beam, which depends on the sun’s elevation in the sky, lasts about two hours a day at this time of the year, the companies said. Preliminary modeling indicates it will be present for two to three weeks. “We are consulting with local businesses and the City to address the issue in the short term while also evaluating longer-term solutions to ensure the issue cannot recur,” the companies said. Diffused Light The developers may have to apply a finish to the outside of the glass that diffuses light rather than reflecting it at full intensity, said Koen Steemers, head of Cambridge University’s department of architecture. “It probably wouldn’t affect the transparency of the glass, but would slightly scatter the reflected solar radiation,” he said. The Walkie Talkie, designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly, is due to be completed next year.

Tenants have signed up to occupy 52% of the building and contracts for a further 4% of the space are awaiting legal confirmation, Land Securities said on July 17. The building is popular with tenants from the insurance industry because it’s close to the Lloyds of London building. Markel Corp., Ascot Underwriting Inc and Kiln Group Ltd. have signed deals as tenants. City nicknames The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". — H. Allen Smith City nicknames The following is my list of City Nicknames, started around 1993. I had collected suggestions from the rec.games.trivia newsgroup, and had heard someone on KGO (San Francisco's AM news-talk radio station) use the phrase "... 10,000 residents of The City, of complications from ...". So I appropriated that phrase "The City of Complications", as an exceptionally apt nickname for San Francisco, and went on to collect a few other names. When I had enough of them, I posted the list to that newsgroup.

So far, I have only been able to re-locate the quiz version of my list, so I haven't actually merged all of the answers back into the list yet. This past year or two (2001-2002), I added a few from the "Isaac Asimov" quiz column in the newspaper, a Sunset Magazine article (which lists California as the "World Capital of Agricultural World Capitals"), and other sources. I also found two other lists on the web (URLs below). I now keep this merged version in both ~landauer/lists/CityOf.html and the stories link in my Radio Weblog, . The one at ~landauer/CityOf_was.html is older. Other web locations that have some similar lists include: ~rksnow/mottos.htm is (today) the top Google result for City nicknames , with good reason. "COMMUNITY MOTTOS & NICKNAMES" looks like they've been actively collecting these for a lot longer than I have.

The Trivia asylum Most recent additions (8 February 2003): Albany, OR; Alpine, TX; Beaver, OK; Bemidji, MN; Brainerd, MN; Bristol, TN; Burlington, Iowa; Cody, WY; Douglas, WY; Frannie, WY; Gallup, NM; Granby, CO; Isleton, CA; Laramie, WY; Lowell, WY; Meeteetse, WY; New York (as "Never Sleeps"); Noxubee County, Alabama; Philadelphia, PA; Rockport, MA; Santa Rosa, NM; Sonora, CA; Sturgis, Michigan; Taxco, Mexico; Tijuana, Mexico; Westwood, CA.

My List of City Nicknames: City Nickname Aberdeen, Scotland The Granite City Akron, OH Rubber City Albany, Georgia Good Life City Albany, ORHome of the Timber Carnival Alexandria, Egypt Pearl of the Mediterranean Allentown, Pennsylvania Cement City Alpine, TXGateway to the Big Bend Annapolis, Maryland Crabtown Atlanta, GA The Athens of the South Atlanta, GA The City Too Busy to Hate Atlanta, GA Dogwood City Atlanta, GA Gate City of the South Auckland, NZ City of Sails Baltimore, Maryland Charm City Baltimore, Maryland Monument City Banaras, India Luminous City Bandon, OR Storm Capital of the World Bangkok, Thailand Venice of the East Beaver, OKCow Chip Throwing Capital of the World Bemidji, MNHome of Paul Bunyan & Babe, the Blue Ox (see Brainerd and Westwood) Beograd The White City Bickleton, WA Bluebird Capital of the World Birmingham, AL Pittsburgh of the South Boston, MA The Athens of America Boston, MA Beantown Boston, MA The City of Kind Hearts Boston, MA The Cradle of Liberty Boston, MA The Hub of the Universe Boston, MA Puritan City Brainerd, MNHome of Paul Bunyan & Babe, the Blue Ox —

 The legend on the Brainerd city limits sign shows up in the film "Fargo".

(See Bemidji and Westwood) Bristol, TNFood City Brandon, Manitoba The Wheat City Bucharest, Romania The Little Paris Budapest, Hungary The Pearl of the Danube Buffalo, New York Bison City Buffalo, New York Flour City Buffalo, NY The City of Good Neighbors Buffalo, NY The Nickel City Buffalo, NY The Queen City (of the Great Lakes) Burlington, IowaLoader/Backhoe Capital of the World Butte, Montana Copper City Byran, Ohio The Fountain City Calgary, Alberta, Canada The Stampede City Calgary, Alberta, Canada The Heart of The New West (that's the New Convention and Visitors Bureau slogan) Calgary, Alberta, Canada Canada's oil capital (Because of high concentration of oil company head offices, as in Houston) Cape Girardeau, Missouri Rose City Cape Hatteras, North Carolina The Graveyard of the Atlantic Castroville, CA Artichoke Center of the World Champaign-Urbana, IL Chambana Champaign-Urbana, IL Shampoo-Bananna Champaign-Urbana, IL Urpaign Charleston, South Carolina America's Most Historic City Charleston, South CarolinaPalmetto City Charlotte, North Carolina Hornets Nest Charlotte, North Carolina Queen City Chicago, Illinois Big Town Chicago City of

 Big Shoulders Chicago, Illinois Hog Butcher for the World Chicago Slaughterhouse to the World Chicago, Illinois Phoenix City Chicago, Illinois Second City Chicago The Windy City Christchurch, NZ The Garden City Cincinnati, Ohio Queen City Cleveland, Ohio Mistake on the Lake Cleveland, OH America's North Coast Cody, WYRodeo Capital of the World Columbus, OH The Crossroads of Ohio Cooperstown, New York Birthplace of Baseball Council Bluffs, Iowa Iowa's Leading Edge Crestwood (Louisville), KYWhiskers Cuernavaca, Morelos, MexicoThe City of Eternal Spring Dallas, Texas Big D Dayton, Ohio Birthplace of Aviation Denver, Colorado City of the Plains Denver, Colorado Convention City Denver, CO Mile High City Denver, Colorado Queen City Detroit, MI Motown Detroit, MI Motor City Dipolog City, Philippines Orchid City Douglas, WYJackalope Capitol [sic] of the World — I vaguely recall that one of the main promoters and/or inventor of the Jackelope died within the last few months.

Durham, NC City of Medicine Durham, NC Bull City Edinburgh, Scotland Athens of the North Erie, Pennsylvania The Gem Eskilstuna, Sweden Smedstan (The smith City) Fallbrook, CA Avocado Capital of the World Florence, Italy The City of Lillies Fort Myers, Florida The City of Palms Frannie, WYBiggest Little Town in Wyoming Gainesville, Florida Hogtown Gallup, NMDrunk-Driving Capital of America Gilroy, CA Garlic Capital of the World Gotland, Sweden Pearl of the Baltic Göteborg, Sweden Götet Granby, COSnowmobile Capital of Colorado Grants Pass, Oregon"It's the Climate" ...

see Grants Pass, OregonWhere the Rogue River Runs Greenfield, CA Broccoli Capital of the World Hammondsport, New York Cradle of Aviation Hawthorne, CA The City of Good Neighbors (2) Hershey, PAChocolate Town, USA Hollywood Hollyweird Hollywood Tinseltown Holtville, CA Carrot Capital of the World Hong Kong Pearl of the Orient Hood River, Oregon (Columbia Gorge) Windsurfing Capital of the World Hoople, North DakotaTater Town Houston, Texas Magnolia City Indianapolis, Indiana Naptown Indianapolis, Indiana Circle City Indianapolis, Indiana Railroad City Indio, CA Date Capital of the World International Falls, Minnesota The Icebox of the United States Isleton, CACrawdad Town, USA Jackson, Mississippi Chimneyville Jaipur The Pink City Jerusalem City of David Jerusalem City of Peace Jönköping, SwedenSmålands Jerusalem Kalamazoo, Michigan Celery City Kansas City, Kansas Heart of America Kokomo, Indiana City of Firsts Kristianstad, Sweden Lilla Paris (rare these days) Keizer, OR Iris Capital of the World Kelseyville, CA Pear Capital of the World (but see here ).

Laramie, WYGem City of the Plains Las VegasSin City Las VegasEntertainment Capital of the World Las VegasCity of Lights Las Vegas, Nevada (downtown)Glitter Gulch Las Vegas, Nevada (downtown)The Strip Letchworth (UK, near Cambridge) The first Garden City in the World Lodi, CAThe [Tokay] Grape Capital of the World (probably more popularly known as the place where Creedence Clearwater Revival got stuck in once, in the 1960's.) London, England The Square Mile London's financial district The City of London London, Ontario The Forest City Los Angeles The Big Orange Los Angeles City of Angels Los Angeles, California City of Flowers and Sunshine Los Angeles La La Land Los Banos City of the Spring Baths Louisville, Kentucky City of Beautiful Churches Louisville, Kentucky Falls City Lowell, WYThe Rose City of Wyoming Madison, Wisconsin Four Lake City Manila, Philippines Pearl of the Orient Mar del Plata, Argentina Queen of the Coast Marysville, California Gateway to the Gold Fields Medellin, Columbia Orchid City Meeteetse, WYWhere Chiefs Meet Melbourne, AustraliaCity of Chromatic Dissolution (not a real nickname, but I really liked the phrase.

I'll have to dig up the film , someday.) Memphis, TN Bluff City Memphis, TN The City that Elvis Ruined (I get a Googlewhack for that one! Today, anyway.) Miami, Florida Little Cuba Miami, Florida Magic City Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cream City Minneapolis, Minnesota Flour City Minneapolis The Mini Apple Minneapolis/St.

Paul, MN The Twin Cities Mobile, Alabama City of Five Flags Montreal, Canada The City of Saints Mountain Iron, Minnesota Taconite Capital of the World Moyobamba, Peru Orchid City Nashville, TN Music City, USA New Haven, Connecticut Elm City New Orleans The Big Easy New Orleans The Crescent City New York The Big Apple New York The Capital of the World New YorkThe City that Never Sleeps New York Gotham New York Empire City New York The Melting Pot New York/Manhattan The City Norrköping, Sweden Peking Noxubee County, Alabama Home of the Dancing Rabbit Festival and Magnolia Pilgrimage (I know, it's not really a city, but how could I pass up a phrase like that?) Oakdale, CA Cowboy Capital of the World Oakland, CA Oaktown Oroville, CA City of Gold Oxford City of Dreaming Spires Oxnard, CA Strawberry Capital of the World (but see here ).

Paris City of Light Pasadena, CA City of Roses Patterson, CA Apricot Capital of the World Pearsonville, CA Hubcap Capital of the World Petaluma, CA Egg Basket of the World Petra The Rose Red City Philadelphia City of Brotherly Love Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rebel Capital Philadelphia, PAMortal City (per Dar Williams) Pittsburgh, PA Steel City Pittsburgh, PA The 'Burgh Pittsburgh, PA Iron City Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Birmingham of America Pittsburgh, PA (downtown) Golden Triangle Pittsburgh, PA (downtown) Three Rivers Pittsburgh, PA (region) City of Bridges Placerville, CA Hangtown Portland, Maine Forest City Portland, Maine Hill City Portland, Oregon City of Roses Prague, Czech Republic The Golden City Providence, Rhode Island Beehive of Industry Quebec The Gibraltar of North America Queenstown, NZ Extreme Sports Capital of the World Redmond, WA Mordor Redmond, WA Nerdburg Reno, NV The Biggest Little City in the World Reseda, CA The Hub of the West Valley (That's the San Fernando Valley) Rigby, IdahoBirthplace of TV There's a museum here, the "TV and Pioneer Museum" .

When I drove through, it made me wonder jest which of those Conestoga wagons had TVs, and how good the reception was. Rincon (Santa Barbara County), California Queen of the Coast Surfers' term. Not really a city. Rochester, New York Kodak City Rochester, New York Snapshot City Rockport, MAThe Mendocino of the East Rogue River Valley, OR Pear Capital of the World (but see here ).

Rome The City of the Seven Hills Rome, Italy The Eternal City Rome, Italy City of Love Rye, New York Border Town Sacramento, California River City Saint Louis, MOGateway to the West (or "The Gateway City") Saint Paul, MinnesotaMoscow on the Mississippi Saint Petersburg, Russia Venice of the North Salem, Massachusetts City of Witches Samal, Philipines Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS) San Antonio, Texas Alamo City San Antonio, Texas Mission City San Diego, California The Plymouth of the West San Diego, CA America's Finest City San Francisco, California The Golden Gate City San Francisco, California Shaky Town San Francisco, CA Baghdad by the Bay San Francisco, CA The City North San Jose, CA The Golden Triangle Santa Fe, New Mexico The City Different Santa Rosa, NMThe SCUBA-diving capital of New Mexico Saratoga Springs, New York Spa City Savannah, Georgia Garden City Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario The SOO Sault Ste.

Marie, MI (I think) The SOO Seattle, WA The Emerald City Selma, CA Raisin Capital of the World Shah Alam, Malaysia Orchid City Sonora, CAThe Queen of the Southern Mines Sri Lanka Pearl of the Indian Ocean (I know, not really a city.) Stockholm Eken (The Oak) Stockholm Venice of the North Stockton, CA California's Sunrise Seaport Sturgis, MichiganCurtain Rod Capital of the World Sundbyberg, Sweden Sumpan Syracuse, New York Salt City Taxco, MexicoSilver Capital of the World Thousand Oaks, CA T.O. Tijuana, MexicoTelevision Capital of the World Toledo, Ohio Corn City Toronto, Ontario Hogtown Toronto, Ontario Muddy York (archaic, I think) Toronto, Ontario T.O.

Toronto, Ontario Toronto the Good (sometimes pejorative) Toronto, Ontario Trawna or Trahna Toronto, Ontario, Canada Queen City Tulelake, CA Horseradish Capital of the World Umeå, SwedenBjörkarnas stad (The city of the birches) (Historic) Vancouver, B.C., CanadaGastown Venice, Italy Bride of the Sea Venice, Italy Queen of the Adriatic Värnersborg, SwedenLilla Paris (Little Paris) Västerås Gurkstan (The Cucumber City) Vicksburg, Mississippi The Gibraltar of America Victoria, Australia The Cabbage Patch Victoria, B.C., Canada Little England Walla Walla, WA The Town So Nice They Named It Twice Walla Walla, WA Walla2 Walla Walla, WA Wallyworld Washington D.C. Capital City Washington D.C. News Capital of the World Waterbury, Connecticut Brass City Wenatchee, WA Apple Capital of the World West Hollywood, CA Boystown West Hollywood, CA The Creative City West Palm Beach, Florida Orchid City Westwood, CAHome of Paul Bunyan & Babe, the Blue Ox It seems that a celebrity like Paul Bunyan has several homes.

I've actually seen him here in Westwood — and note that this is the Lassen County Westwood. (See and also see Brainerd and Bemidji.) Wheeling, West Virginia Nail City Wichita, Kansas Emerald City Windsor, Ontario Tijuana North NOTES: I used to have some of the following ones in the main list. I have moved these here mostly for not being unique enough (i.e., Google found too many candidates for the given honor). I should probably move all of the "Queen City"s down here, too. A recent contributor mentioned Coos Bay, Oregon as having (had) the official motto "City With a Future".

Alas, Google says that this is one of the too-common ones: Lansing, KS; Mankato, MN (had this motto in 1912); Yokosuka, Japan; Ruda [approx equal]öl[florin]Öska, Poland; Massillon, Ohio; Fulton, NY?; Monett, MO; ¬¶widnica, Poland; Lisbon, Portugal; Sumner, Iowa; St Louis, MO; Tremonton, Utah And it has a few variations: Altus, Oklahoma: "City with a Future to Share" Kenai, Alaska: "THE VILLAGE WITH A PAST - THE CITY WITH A FUTURE" Lowell, Arkansas: "Town with a Past, City with a Future" Beersheba: "A place with a past, a city with a future" "City of Champions" (Joliet, Illinois; Brockton, Massachusetts; Duncanville, Texas; Lilburn, Georgia; Edmonton, Alberta; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). (Pittsburgh has really really bad Google-juice.

I have a vague recollection that it (and Edmonton) were the two "City of Champions"s on my original list. But Pittsburgh is way down low on the Google-meter search for "City of Champions".) "City of Gold" (Gold Beach, OR; Oroville, California; Cite de l'or, Quebec; Gold Coast City in Australia; Victor, Colorado; etc) "City of Love" (Glasgow, San Francisco, Calcutta, Paris) "City of Roses" — Pasadena, California (my first home town) has held the Rose Parade for more than a century now; this gives it first dibs on this monicker. I had also seen Portland, Oregon referred to this way. But Google gives the nod to ?Cape Girardeau, Missouri??? Weird.

The "City That Time Forgot" (Baldwin Park, CA; Galena, IL; New Orleans; Tikal, Guatemala; Bruges/Brugge, Belgium; and a host of others) Cowtown (Both Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta; Chicago; Columbus, OH; Dallas; Kansas City; Wichita, KS; et al) "The All-American City" (I gather there's an award by this name, whose value is enormously diluted by the fact that it is bestowed annually on 10 cities. It is the National Civic League that does this.) Here are a few of the winners, plus other places that claim this title either on the web, or in email I've seen lately: Tri-Cities of TN/VA; Ocean City, MD; Tuscaloosa-Northport Tupelo MI; Roswell, NM; Santa Clara, CA; Delray Beach, FL; South Miami, FL; Fort Dodge, IA; Howard County, MD; Ocean City, MD; Independence, MO; Bozeman, MT; Fayetteville, NC; Brownsville, TX; Allentown, PA The End of the World.

(Not to be confused with The End of the Internet , of which there are also a whole bunch). Trosa, Sweden; Ushuaia, Argentina; Anchorage, AK; Gibraltar Gateway to the Rockies (Denver and Aurora Colorado; and Calgary, Hinton, and Banff, Alberta. Probably dozens of others.) Devin T McLaughlin suggested a bunch of nicknames for Calgary; some ("Entrepreneurial City" and "Volunteer City") failed the google test (didn't really show up at all), and Cowtown fails in the other direction (see above). Cotton Capital of { World, USA, Western Australia, etc... } "The Garden City" is an unusual one: there appear to be a number of cities with "Garden" as a part of their real names, which makes it a bit hard to sift out and locate the one(s) where it's just a nickname. I left three of these in the main list; Christchurch is Phil Pearson's fault, and the others came from a Google search to see if the nickname was too common for my tastes. pre-Thanksgiving update: Hogtown goes to Toronto mainly, though Gainesville put in a strong enough #2 showing.

So at this point, only one of the nicknames from my original list remains unidentified -- i.e., I haven't quite figured out with enough certainty to put it back in place yet: "The Paris of the 1980's". Maybe Seattle. Gaining no confidence from Google, I'll probably just drop that one. And the other two cities that I didn't find matches for are in Ontario, Canada — Copetown and Welland. My google efforts did not come up with any nickname for either. These will have to wait until I re-locate my original list or check some of the other sites I've listed above. Thanks to Erland, Margaret, Phil, Devin, Drew, Isaac, Kunaal, Dave Letterman, the film "Fargo", and anyone else who contributed suggestions! © Copyright 2006 Doug Landauer .

Question: What nickname is given to the financial district of London?
Answer: THE SQUARE MILE